PARAMOUNT : Deputy City Manager Named to Top Position
City Manager William A. Holt announced his resignation last week, and the City Council named Deputy City Manager Patrick West to succeed him.
Holt will depart Friday to become executive director of the Southern California Joint Powers Insurance Authority, a La Palma-based organization that provides insurance, such as workers’ compensation, to 76 small and mid-sized cities in the state.
West, 40, who will earn $102,000 a year as the new city manager, began working for Paramount as superintendent of parks and recreation in 1980, and has been a deputy city manager since 1986.
Holt, who studied law and passed the bar exam while serving as city manager, will continue to work part time as a city prosecutor on code enforcement cases against negligent property owners, said Mayor Gerald A. Mulrooney. Mulrooney called Holt an “outstanding talent” and credited him with turning the city away from an economic and educational decline of the late 1970s. Holt extensively restructured city departments such as redevelopment, accounting and personnel to make them more efficient, Mulrooney said.
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